Yassine Mansouri

Yassine Mansouri
ياسين المنصوري
Director-General of the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 16, 2005
Appointed byMohammed VI of Morocco
Preceded byAhmed Harchi
Director-General of Home Affairs
In office
March 31, 2003 – February 16, 2005
Appointed byMohammed VI of Morocco
Director of Maghreb Arabe Presse
In office
November 19, 1999 – March 31, 2003
Personal details
Born (1962-04-02) April 2, 1962 (age 62)[1]
Bejaâd, Morocco
EducationRoyal College
Alma materMohammed V University

Mohamed Yassine Mansouri (Arabic: محمد ياسين المنصوري; born April 2, 1962) is a Moroccan dignitary who has served as the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency, the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (DGED) under King Mohammed VI since February 16, 2005.[2][3][4]

He previously served as the director of the Moroccan state-owned press agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse in November 1999, then as Director-General of Home Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior.[2][5][6]

Early life and education

Mansouri was born in Bejaâd, near Khouribga, on April 2, 1962. He is the son of Hajj Abderrahmane Mansouri, a religious professor and scholar from Bzou who was a student of Mokhtar Soussi, Mohamed Serghini, and Moulay Ahmed Alami before moving to Bejaâd after his retirement.[7][2][8]

Yassine Mansouri remains attached to Bejaâd and his ancestral town of Bzou, associated with the Berber Antifa tribe, visiting the cities yearly and overseeing several charitable initiatives in the region.[2][9]

He was a classmate of Mohammed VI at the Royal College in Rabat.[2][10] He received a law degree and two graduate degrees in public law in 1983 from Mohammed V University.[11]

Career

Yassine Mansouri began his career in the mid-1980s at the Ministry of Information and later the Ministry of the Interior during an internship at Driss Basri's cabinet.[2][11][12]

In 1999, following violent pro-independence riots in Laâyoune, King Mohammed VI ordered a report on the causes behind the riots from Mansouri and Hamidou Laânigri.[2] The report allegedly pointed out repression led by interior minister Driss Basri, who was dismissed from his functions by the King a month later after 20 years of service.[2][13] In the aftermath of this cabinet shuffle, Mansouri was named director of Maghreb Arabe Presse and Laânigri was named head of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance.[2]

Personal life

Mansouri is married and has 4 children.[2] He is described as a "tireless worker" who is "extremely reserved and discreet, even shy" and as a pious man who often did Umrah and who is "attached to his origins".[2]

Decorations

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References

  1. ^ "DAG : Un rôle important". Aujourd'hui le Maroc. 23 May 2003. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Driss Bennani (23 October 2010). "Mohamed Yassine Mansouri. Le nouvel homme fort". TelQuel. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  3. ^ Lagarde, Dominique; Jebbar, Ahlam (2005-10-13). "Plus près de Sa Majesté". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  4. ^ "Morocco/Algeria: Military leaders in the shadows". The Africa Report.com. 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  5. ^ Soudan, Francois. "Mohamed Yassine Mansouri – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  6. ^ "Portraits". La Gazette du Maroc. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  7. ^ "Mort d'un sage". Maroc-Hebdo. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  8. ^ "Après la disparition du grand alem, Haj Abderrahmane Mansouri : la scène culturelle marocaine orpheline d'un éminent érudit". Le Matin.ma (in French). 2004-06-06. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  9. ^ Deverdun, G. (1992-09-01). "Bzū". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (11): 1677–1678. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1889. ISSN 1015-7344.
  10. ^ gherrrabi (2021-06-03). "Un Zoom sur M. Abdellatif Hammouchi, et M. Mohamed Yassine El Mansouri, les yeux qui veillent sur le Royaume du Maroc". Afrique L'Adulte (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  11. ^ a b "Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, le nouveau patron de la MAP". Maghress. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  12. ^ "Mohamed-Yassine Mansouri a une expérience diversifiée : une connaissance du secteur de l'information et de la communication et une ouverture à l'international. Le "joker" du Roi". Maroc Hebdo. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  13. ^ Boudarraja, Hosam-Eddine (2021-11-29). "M. Mohamed Yassine El Mansouri, l'homme de l'ombre de la diplomatie marocaine". LAFRIQUEADULTE (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  14. ^ "Bucarest décore Yassine Mansouri après la libération d'un otage roumain par Al Qaida". Le Desk (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-23.